Date: Wed, 11 Oct 2006 16:10:26 -0400
Reply-To: Jonathan Farrugia <jfarrugi@UMICH.EDU>
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From: Jonathan Farrugia <jfarrugi@UMICH.EDU>
Subject: Re: Painting
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Robert
how did you find a spray booth to rent? i wired spray booths for
years and always wanted to rent one out to spray my stuff but never heard
of any of the shops doing this.
jonathan
On Wed, 11 Oct 2006, Robert Fisher wrote:
> I took 'body shop' in high school... you signed up on a waiting list and you
> paid for the materials (and I believe a small fee that went toward other
> overhead items involved with the course) and you got your paint job labor
> free in exchange for giving your car up to a bunch of adolescent goofs. If
> you preferred your goofs a little older they had a similar program at the
> area vocational school.
>
> We turned out a pretty nice job- we actually weren't allowed to give back a
> car with a less-than-professional result. The worse the beater the better as
> it gave us more opportunities to work with different problems. You might
> check around your area and see if there is a program like that available, if
> time isn't much of an issue. It's a hell of a lot cheaper than paying all
> that labor.
>
> If you find a program and don't want to wait, talk to one of the better
> students and see if they're taking work on the side. We used to make money
> on the weekends doing that. We'd the prep in the driveway and book a rental
> paint booth for a day and do the main shooting there. Beat the hell out of
> mowing lawns.
>
> There are shops around here that turn away older cars that actually need
> work because they can make more money on straight paint jobs that require
> little body work/prep. One shop here refused to take one of my folks' cars
> because it required some minor welding and rust-out repair and they told me
> the vehicle wasn't worth the work (as if that's any of their business) and
> it wasn't worth their time. Nice business manner.
>
> Robert
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: <JordanVw@AOL.COM>
> To: <vanagon@GERRY.VANAGON.COM>
> Sent: Wednesday, October 11, 2006 12:22 PM
> Subject: Re: Painting
>
>
>> In a message dated 10/11/06 3:14:37 PM Eastern Daylight Time,
>> magikvw@GMAIL.COM writes:
>>
>>
>>> If cost is a major option - what are the lists thoughts on having a bus
>>> painted at an Earl Sceib or similar mass painting shop. I tend to be very
>>> apprehensive of their claims. However, what is really the difference
>>> between
>>> what they will do for $750 or what a small independent shop will do for
>>> thousands?
>>>
>>>
>>
>> well u get what you pay for. a $750 paint job by earl schieb looks like
>> a
>> $750 earl schieb paint job.
>>
>> im serious.. people will come up to you and say.."you had your van
>> painted
>> at earl schieb , didnt you?... or you may get some who will say "is that
>> an
>> earl schieb $750 paint job, or a Maaco $495 paint job?" you get the
>> picture
>> :<)
>>
>> chris
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